DYKWIA - The 2017 thread
Jun 28, 2017, 9:27 am
#541
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I don't think it's illegitimate to have a quiet but firm chat with the gate agent, as I have done in the past at certain outstations (looking at you AMS) when connecting to F as a GGL, if they try to take your "non-guaranteed" wheelie bag off you due to the flight being full. Needless to say that space was found in the overheads. DYKWIA? Not really.
Jun 28, 2017, 11:05 am
#542
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Jun 28, 2017, 11:21 am
#543
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Do they board before ordinary Rubies?
Jun 28, 2017, 11:34 am
#544
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Looks like he (#luxe travelist) has started a new job at "The Appointment Group Global Private Clients - an international luxury travel company with over 25 years’ experience of arranging bespoke and inspiring worldwide holidays for high net-worth individuals, celebrities and VIPs.- TAG Global Private Clients announces new Product & Business Development Manager
How to make a first impression!
Jun 28, 2017, 11:39 am
#545
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Looks like he (#luxe travelist) has started a new job at "The Appointment Group Global Private Clients - an international luxury travel company with over 25 years’ experience of arranging bespoke and inspiring worldwide holidays for high net-worth individuals, celebrities and VIPs.- TAG Global Private Clients announces new Product & Business Development Manager
How to make a first impression!
How to make a first impression!
Jun 28, 2017, 1:10 pm
#546
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I don't think it's illegitimate to have a quiet but firm chat with the gate agent, as I have done in the past at certain outstations (looking at you AMS) when connecting to F as a GGL, if they try to take your "non-guaranteed" wheelie bag off you due to the flight being full.
Jun 28, 2017, 1:15 pm
#547
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Jun 28, 2017, 1:25 pm
#548
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We were travelling the other day in CE and it was suggested that 4 yr old master Jed's Lightning McQueen wheelie (with gold luggage tag attached, should I add) might be checked into the hold. His response... "but my Terry's chocolate orange and power rangers are in there".
Jun 28, 2017, 1:39 pm
#549
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^ (I may have to try that line myself sometime!) @:-)Thanks for the smile!
Jun 28, 2017, 1:41 pm
#550
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Now, that is truly a good reason why a bag shouldn't be checked. Wouldn't want the chocolate to melt.
Jun 28, 2017, 4:20 pm
#551
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He ended up stomping off away from the GA towards the plane but was stopped by another gate agent (perhaps a supervisor) who told him on no uncertain terms that if the bag wasn't checked he wasn't going on the flight. I suspect the second gate agent would have made nothing of it if the passenger hadn't been so rude to the original GA.
I sometimes put cheese in checked luggage explicitly to keep it cool. Traveled with a pot of stilton from London across the channel in November.
Jun 28, 2017, 6:09 pm
#552
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Jun 28, 2017, 8:03 pm
#553
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Usually colder than the passenger cabin but it depends on the aircraft. The hold is less insulated and only some aircraft can control the temperature in there. For those that can't regulate temperature in one or both holds, the recirculating airflow from the cabin keeps the temperature somewhat sane.
Perishable cargo is more likely to get damaged sitting on the ground waiting to be loaded/unloaded.
Perishable cargo is more likely to get damaged sitting on the ground waiting to be loaded/unloaded.
Last edited by 1010101; Jun 28, 2017 at 8:11 pm
Jun 28, 2017, 10:33 pm
#554
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Jun 29, 2017, 1:15 am
#555
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